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Call on Costa Rica Now

For too long, women in Costa Rica have been denied legal abortion services—help us fight back. Your voice counts – sign the petition now to urge the Costa Rican government to permit women to receive [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Challenge to Trump Administration’s Contraceptive Coverage Rules

Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Challenge to Trump Administration’s Contraceptive Coverage Rules Lawsuit challenges Administration’s Latest Action Against Women’s Health (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a complaint today in federal court in [...]

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State District Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma Restrictions on Medication Abortion Due to Legal Challenge from Center for Reproductive Rights

State District Court Permanently Blocks Oklahoma Restrictions on Medication Abortion Due to Legal Challenge from Center Center has challenged eight measures restricting access to reproductive health since 2011 A state district court today permanently blocked  [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights to Fight Back in Court After Trump Administration Guts Women’s Access to Birth Control

Center for Reproductive Rights to Fight Back in Court After Trump Administration Guts Women’s Access to Birth Control Trump administration issues final rules allowing employers, universities to deny women insurance coverage for birth control (PRESS [...]

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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Unconstitutional Nationwide Ban on Abortion at 20 Weeks

U.S. House of Representatives Passes Unconstitutional Nationwide Ban on Abortion at 20 Weeks (PRESS RELEASE)—Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 36, an unconstitutional nationwide ban on abortion at 20 weeks, prohibiting safe and [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights President & CEO Nancy Northup: Statement on HHS Secretary Price’s Resignation

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on HHS Secretary Price’s Resignation Today, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price – who packed the agency with anti-abortion extremists to chip away at women’s healthcare rights [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Warns Graham-Cassidy Imperils Women’s Health Care

Center for Reproductive Rights Warns Graham-Cassidy Imperils Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE)—Today the Senate Finance Committee held the first and only public hearing on the Graham-Cassidy proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which [...]

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European Union and United Nations Launch Spotlight Initiative to End Violence Against Women

European Union and United Nations Launch Spotlight Initiative to End Violence Against Women European Union Pledges 500 Million Euros Towards Gender Equality Fund (PRESS RELEASE) This week the European Union and the United Nations kicked [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Threatens To Decimate Women’s Health Care

Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Threatens To Decimate Women’s Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) The Graham-Cassidy health care bill, like previous iterations of efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), would have devastating impacts on women’s [...]

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Center For Reproductive Rights President & CEO Nancy Northup: Statement on Decision to Rescind DACA

Nancy Northup: Rescinding DACA Program Is "Chilling" Statement of Nancy Northup, President and CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights: “Attorney General Sessions’ announcement today that the Justice Department is rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [...]

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Federal District Court Temporarily Blocks Texas Measure Banning One of the Safest, Most Common Methods of Second Trimester Abortion

Federal District Court Temporarily Blocks Texas Measure (PRESS RELEASE) A federal district court judge today issued a temporary restraining order blocking a 2017 Texas measure banning the safest and most common method of ending a [...]

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Chile to Pass Historic Bill

Chile to Pass Historic Bill that Decriminalizes Abortion in Certain Circumstances Chile to Pass Historic Bill that Decriminalizes Abortion in Certain Circumstances (PRESS RELEASE) Today Chile’s Constitutional Tribunal voted 6 to 4 to pass an abortion [...]

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Chile Makes History

After a decade of advocacy by the Center and partners, Chile is lifting its total abortion ban. [UPDATE] In a monumental victory for women’s reproductive rights in Chile, the government’s Constitutional Tribunal voted to decriminalize [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.